(a) Generally. The Dog Warden and every other person enforcing this chapter shall promptly seize, take up and place in the dog pound all dogs found running at large or harbored or owned contrary to this chapter. A receipt shall be given to the person delivering any such dog to the dog pound, which receipt shall carefully describe the same and shall state the hour and date of delivery.
(1974 Code Sec. 9.102)
(b) Release; Fees; Records. No dog shall be released from the Animal Shelter unless the owner or person entitled to demand the same pays to the Animal Control Officer or to the person employed to perform the administrative duties thereof, a fee of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) for the first day, and five dollars ($5.00) for each subsequent day for the care, custody and feeding of such dog and procures a proper license for such dog if such dog has not already been duly licensed. The Animal Control Officer shall keep a careful record of all dogs received into the Animal Shelter with a description of each dog so impounded and the disposition of the same. He or she shall pay over to the City Treasurer, to be credited to the General Fund of the City, all money received by him or her for the release of all dogs impounded and shall file a report with the City Clerk, on the first day of every month, showing the number and sex of all dogs impounded during the month and the disposition of the same. The Animal Control Officer shall keep on file all receipts of the City Treasurer for all moneys paid to him or her to be credited to the General Fund.
(1974 Code Sec. 9.103; Ord. 367. Passed 4-20-83; Ord. 820. Passed 12-28-05; Ord. 855. Passed 2-6-08.)
(c) Disposition of Unclaimed Dogs. All dogs not claimed or released within five working days after being impounded shall be destroyed, or, if the animal is worthy and valuable, then the same shall be kept for five days for purposes of sale, under the supervision and direction of the Dog Warden, by public outcry to the highest bidder at 12:00 noon next succeeding to the expiration of such five days, or otherwise disposed of. However, at any such public sale, no dog shall be sold for less than ten dollars ($10.00). Any dog impounded which is rabid, which has been bitten by or been fighting with a dog that is rabid or which has attacked a person shall be kept for such a period of time, and under such conditions, as shall be prescribed by the County Department of Health. The Dog Warden shall notify the Department whenever there is good reason to believe that he or she has such a dog in the dog pound.
(1974 Code Sec. 9.104; Ord. 367. Passed 4-20-83.)
(d) Disposition of Destroyed Dogs. The bodies of all dogs that have been destroyed under and according to this chapter shall be disposed of in such manner as shall be prescribed by the County Department of Health.
(1974 Code Sec. 9.105)